in te world and promoting Mende culture, the culture of the second largest ethnic group in Sierra Leone. There is an organization created in New York on behalf of health care providers that represent nursing. In 2008 the Sierra Leone Nurses Association (SLNA) was started in New York, in honor of the original SLNA started originally in Sierra Leone in 1961. Following the first chapter in the USA started in 2007 in California. And worldwide chapters since. There is a union organization called Union of Sierra Leone organizations in New York (USLO) in 2010. Notable people Franklyn Ajaye Apha Saidu Bangura Shaka Bangura Ishmael Beah Namina Forna Sallieu Bundu Joseph Cinqué Will Claye Sarah Culberson Michaela DePrince Delphine Fawundu Bill Hamid Nikyatu Jusu Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu Abdul Kallon Hafsatu Kamara Kei Kamara Memsor Kamarake Augustine Kposowa Michael Lahoud Adetokumboh M'Cormack Victor Mansaray Sahr Ngaujah Mohamed Sanu Ansu Sesay Israel Sesay Jacob Stroyer Jeneba Tarmoh Abdul Thompson Conteh Frances Tiafoe Nate Tongovula Thomas DeSaille Tucker Desiree Venn Frederic Abiodun Williams Gibril Wilson Tejan Koroma See also Sierra Leone – United States relations Sierra Leone Creole people Sierra Leoneans in the United Kingdom References External links "The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone - American Connection" by Joseph A. Opala, United States Information Service, Freetown, 1987. Genetic Genealogy. Amistads El conflicto in Sierr Leona desde 1991 (in Spanish: The conflict in Sierra Leone since 1991). Background Note: Sierra Leone West Africans in the United States